Primetime Ratings: NBC Wins With Steelers-Titans
NBC was the big winner in Sunday prime ratings, with pre-season football leading the way to a 1.2 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 6 share. That topped ABC’s 0.7/4.
NBC had an America’s Got Talent rerun leading into Steelers versus Titans at 1.3.
ABC offered an America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat, then Celebrity Family Feud at 0.8 and $100,000 Pyramid at 0.6, both flat, and To Tell the Truth up 20% at 0.6.
CBS was just behind at 0.6/3. 60 Minutes lost 44% for a 0.5 and Big Brother slid 15% to 1.1. The Instinct series finale posted a 0.4, level with last week, and an NCIS: Los Angeles repeat wrapped up prime.
Telemundo tallied a 0.4/2. Exatlon Estados Unidos did a 0.3 from 7 to 9 p.m. and a 0.4 from 9 to 10 p.m. The premiere of El Secreto de Selenda scored a 0.4.
Univision weighed in at 0.3/2. Aqui Y Ahora got a 0.3 and 2013 movie No Se Aceptan Devoluciones rated a 0.4.
Fox got a 0.2/1. Comedy reruns led into What Just Happened?!? With Fred Savage down a tenth at 0.1.
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The CW did a 0.1/1 with reruns.
Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.